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= When Woman
j "Reads Woman \
"I'm gladf to find tliat there are
no old maid proclivities about you/'
-observed Edith.
"By what line of reasoning have
won, reached that conclusion?" re
jturned^Jack, the bridegroom, pre
jparing the lather for his matutinal
48have.j
' Eoi^h, in kimono and silk petti
coat, had paused, with her hair half
ibruahejd, to rummage in the top
Jdraiver of lier husband's chiffonier.
"Ties, handkerchiefs, ?cotillon fa
wora, lodd gloves, cigars, matches,
f>ho^o?raphs~-yes, letters. Letters
rom a woman too! What careless,
thoughtless creatures men are!"
Jack was br.sy lathering his pink
jcheeks and pai? lUtle heed to the
chatter of his vivacious bride. Let
tier rummage ai^ong my. effects, he
thought, if it.pleases her.
Edith ?at quietly with a pile of
letter in her lap, some in their en
velopes, some heaped up without
having been refolded after their
perusal by the recipient. She sort "id
out several in tho same handwriting
irom the mass of bills, invitations
End wedding announcements; that
elped fill the drawer. She did not
if eel that she ,was doing anything
rmean or underhand in reading what
jhad not been intended for her eyes.
CWere not 'Jack and herself one?
fWas he not standing but a few feet
away, and could he not prevent her
from reading the letters if he
wished?
! Jack, however, was carefully re
jmoving the lather from his upper
flip. To keep his r* /r on the proper
(road was all he was capable of con
sidering at that moment.
He finished shaving just as Edith,
^finished the last letter. Then he
looked around and saw her occupa
tion*. He took up one of the letters
iand, recognizing the handwriting,
igave a little start.
Y "That's not exactly honorable of
'jyou, Edith," he said, "to read Dix
ie's letters,".
"Just as honorable for me to read
?them as for you to leave them about
eo carelessly," she retorted. ;
A; sharp answer rose to his lips,
rout he repressed it.
'^It doesn't matter much," he. re
jturned,V with a smile, "for they
faren't love letters. I don't think
(Dixie would mind your seeing
jthem.".
There was an. odd expression in
?he eyes of Edith as she answered:
"Not love letters? Well, if not
that they come very near the defini
tion." *
"Nonsense!" exclaimed Jack.
"Dixie never thought of me in that
.way. We were friends,'that's all.
?Good friends, churns, everything
like that, but-?oh, no, Dixie never
cared for me in any other sense."
v '*Perhaps you were in > love with
lier, though, observed Edith; with
?orne frigidity in her tones.
Jack straightened up bis tall figr
10*2 end proceeded to brush his
smooth hair deliberately. He did
mot answer at once. WJ
"I told you, Edith, that Dixie and
? were friends," he said after a long
mause. "She is a jKood ffillaw-~i%hs
?and one chums with. We were that
land of friends.".
Edith picked up one of the let
ters.
"This sounds like friendship,
doesn't it??? she said, reading :
! ' Jack, dear Jack, it seeraa like an eter
m?ty until next Saturday, when you said
jyou'd come and have tea with ma
"I can't forgot, dear old boy, how you,
looked the other night After you left X
rwemt to work and drew your itxe?'.-^m)
ftulckly as I eould,so I'd not lose tha ex
jjttessSon. It was so llfcllko wh?n X finish
ed that X klascd it?sketch of you.
' "And this," sha - went on, t?ki?g
[up the other .letters, one after the
?ther, reading bits fromeachr
' /Tom: Darling ! asked me yesterday
{Whether I did not think he had a better
?Physlquo than you. Imagine tbo vanity
<ot him 1 V Why, Jack, dear old fellow,!
ikaow it won't hurt you at: all, for . you
iarea't a bit vain; but the artists at the
^. $V-:*cia*s ail Bay you ought to. Jet-?arl model
(you as, Hercules. I wish I were ? sculp
tor instead of a pen and Ink. "Wouldn't X
?prinff to fame oa your ehoul?jera?
I f "You did not "come yesterday; as you
' promised. .1 wasangry4a,t first, then hurt'
- ?terribly hurt. But X thought it over
?nd concluded ? must have said . some
thing that displeased you the last night?
0*ou y0t? ?i th? studio. There should bo
.'no misunderstandings between/ friends.
^.y^:-#o.Xam just writing; Jack, to ask you if
your Daily Food disagreed with,you ana
iwhat'u .the remedy. . v
. i Jack ?augh??.
"I suppose you wend?r what she
srieans by that last sentence ?" h?
"?f course. Fm just devoured by
-curiosity."
Jack did not-notice tha sarcasm
iufldng in her* wolds.
. 9i0 expminbq; '. "?"ou see, Dixie is
??ch a nice little thing, and once a
>fellow at one of her partiesyqnpte^
that thing about .
cr?ature not too bright and good
For human nst?r^a^??ny Zeod."
"Tom started caHinfr Dixie Daily
jitood after that, end wnea any of us
fbada falling out with lier, ?h^nped.
to say our drood didu't agree ? with
EdiIn. tossed the lost letter cost
tomptuoU^y Jint? the drawer; upon
tue lie?? of 'laies, juol?ars/?n^tatioiia,
favors.': b??J^
Jove jettersjwl^h^yo^^
<f?hi; no. SCouVo mistaken/' f'isjfe.
;'awe^#??^^er3yl' ^'W?it ?nd.^
,.:.Ji?rxnrthc,'wnrarobeVh
^^?oj&$uo;? }
H ihe;:n?^rntoan^^ ih<D
"Listen io this," he said: .
"Dear Jack?I have Just returned from
tho south and learn of your approaching
marriage. I know you ar_ very happy. I
om sure you will bo In your new life, j
and I wls'u you and your wife to be every j
blessing heaven can give. Your loyal old :
chum, DIXIE. |
"Now, Edith, that looks like love, I
doesntit?" j
Edith shook her head wisely. She
j took up her brush and began dress- ,
ing her long blond hair.
"It takes a woman to read a wo
man's heart/' she said. "Poor
Dixie!"
She smiled at her own beautiful
face in the glass as she heaved a
sigh for the girl who had lost Jack.
Juck returned to his mirror,
spending more time than usual in
adjusting his collar and tie. Edith's
words seemed to have torn a veil
t from his eyes. He wished she had
I not. It seemed to him like invad
ing a eanctuary. What a blind fool
he had been ! How many times by
his cureless words must he have
wounded Dixie's heart 1
I Yet how careful he had been never
; to disturb the serene course of their
! camaraderie. Many a time had ho
I been tempted- to steal kisses from
j Dixie's tenderly curved lips, but ho
! had always refrained, because he
: felt that it would not please her. *
j "I like my friends to be friends
j and not play at being lovers," she
. had said once to Tom Darling when
he bad made a feeble feint at flirta
? tion. Jack remembered how once,
j; when the red wine at a studio dinner
a daux with Dixie had warmed him
to sentimentalism, he had said:
J "We might get married, Dixie."
He had not been sufficiently seri
I ous in his mood at the time to pay
much attention to her jesting reply,
but he now recalled that she had not
answered directly. She hac? looked
at him curiously, he remembered
how, but her merry answer had come
quickly enough after that:
"Oh, three days would put an end
to the romance," she had eaid.
j Was Edith right? Did Dixie love
him? How crisscross everything
went in this world! He wished
, Edith had not read those letters.
: He wished he had not been so. care
I less in leaving them about.
It'was too late now?too late for
more than regret.
I " Tour* loyal chum, Dixie/ " the
words repeated themselves in his
I brain. Ho had not been so loyal to j
her. Would she have left his/leiters
? about where he who finds may read ?
Edith's voice interrupted the
trend of his thoughts.
I **You'rs ages fixing your tie," she
said. "Breakfast has been ready a |
I half hour."?Town Talk. .
iVcry Daar at the Prioe.
Queen Caroline, the wife ' of
.George II., seriously thinking of
closing St. James park, in London,
! and turning it into a garden for the
palace, asked Sir Bonert Walpole
. what it would cost to do so. "A tri
I fie, madam; only a trifle/' replied
the minister. "A trifle?" rejoined
j her majesty. "I know it must be
pretty expensive, but can't you tell
mo as nearly ao you can gu'- s?" ,To
which Sir Bobert answered, "Why,
madam, I believe the whole thing
! will cost but three crowns;" The
queen had sense enough to see Wei"
pole's allusion to the crowns of Eng
, Isng, Scotland and Ireland and said
at once thai she would abandon the
finotion. .
I The Vaiuo of tho Classics.
' Eycngelicism as reflected in the
( letters of our ancestors was pecu
lmrly icy and of ? kind to freeze up
the nigh spirits of young people.
* In 1860 a devoted mother wrote
to her boy, after he had gone to a
preparatory school "to fit for col
i
j "I am glad you are reading Plato
and Herodotus. Communing With
the dead, you will learn hoV to die."
j That was the worldliest sentiment
in this letter to a boy. of fifteen, ex
I cept an injunction, not to squander
. his monthly allowance of $2 "in
S foolish* purchases of sweets and
trivial knickknacks."
A Lesson.
A man at a Glasgow hotel in a
; loud tone of voice called hi3 friend
, back just as ho wa? leaving tho din
! ing room end then whispered to him^ j
{. "How far would vou have got if I
t ; hadn't c?lfc?. yourb?ck ?"
" Th? ; o ther,, straightening himself
Up, replied in a tone loud enough
for all to. h?ar: "No, sir, I won't
t lend you ??.v I haven't got it on me,
! and if I had I wouldn't let you have
' it until you .paid! me wnat you bor
rowed two months ago." - -}l
His friend, will never call hini
back again in a public dining room.
- . ? Paworiai Safrnpn. / . . '{^^^
, A minister of the kirk of Scotland
} oneefdlBCOvered Iiis wrfc \ asleep in
C th? m1dst?of his bon^y^oh. the Sab
] 1>ath. So,; pausing in thp^tcady and
' possibly somewhat monotonous flow
of his oratory, he broke forth with
this personal, address/ sharp and
clear, but very deliberate:
"Susan P . .
Susnn woke up\with a. s^5^:_and
r?buc-d her eyes^ as did all the ?thSr
dreamers in ' tho edifice/ whether
I. asleep or awake.
* . "Susan/' continued her clerical
?pouse;/T; didna marry ye for yer
^wealth, .sin', ye had hon^. And vi
i^^^.^tif.y? -for y ot oeauty. <; That
ill congregation can s? e. And.
not grace I hae .made "
>n wi' veP .
;-^thij- oi?re 'a' takr?,: prra?'?eH to
^tt?^^^^ .^.li?VI ^fr" v.' V>? w.v? j??K ;
y^^%g?$ hauf/.)jfi>r.;:k^ivrog&*u;<
rjel^rl?fe:-;:.^
HARD INSURANCE WORK.
Mow an Agent's Blunt Franlmesa
Opened '.ho Way to Big Order.
A clever insurance agent was
closing a long campaign upon a
wealthy merchant whom he wished
to insure for $.\00,000. The mer
chant had been a "tough proposi
tion/' and the solicitor's arguments
and eloquence dropped from him so
Ineffectively as to arouse all the pro
fessional prido of a dozen years' suc
cess. He redoubled his efforts and
was tit last just about to give up in,
disgust when the merchant swung
around in his revolving chair and
fixed him with a cold gray eye.
"Young man/' said he, "if you
can satisfy me on ono point I'll take
out this policy."
Tho agent braced himself, for the
tone contradicted the encourage
ment of tho words. "I guess I can,"
ho remarked.
"We!!, then," demanded the oth
er in a high vqjee, pointing a big
finger sternly at his visitor, "how
much do you get out of this first |
$4>000 which I am to 'invest/ as
you call it ?"
"I've no objection personally to
telling you/'" replied the insurance
man uneasily, "but I've agreed not
to give the exact figures/'
"Is it half ?"
"Yes. More than that."
"More than half! And will you
kindly inform me why I should pay
you more than $2,000? Do I get
anything from it? What reason is
Jihore for such an absurdity?" Ho
woo angry, insulting, triumphant.
The agent rose. He felt his chance
was gone and decided that he had
earned tho luxury of a little plain
speech.
"Well, I'll tell you. I've been
here twelve times, haven't IF'
"I can wel\ believe it," replied the
other, rather brutally.
"And I've spent hours and days
you know nothing about finding out j
all about, you and your affairs and
laying out my facts so that they'd
appeal to you."
"Well?"
"Well, if the world wasn't full of
obstinate idiots like you, who have
to have a good thing hammered
clear through their skulls before
they recognize, it, my company
wouldn't need to employ and pay
. men of intelligence like me."
. It is said that this venturesome
person left that office with the sig
nature for which he had striven so
hard. In any case, he expressed a
truth which impresses one as soon
as he begins to investigate insurance
conditions. If people who ought to
be insured would ail go to the insur
ance companies instead of having to
be fairly clubbed in, one of the lar
gest expenses would >jo eliminated,
with the obvio-s result of lower
rates or larger dividends to policy
holders.?World's Work.
v
Court In a Railway Car.
? short time ago when a train on
the Hussion railway from Tashkond
stopped at Tcherneievo a well dress
ed man got into a carriage marked'
"No Smoking Allowed" and, taking
out his case, began to smoke a cig
arette. The other passer gers polite
ly called his attention to the fact
; that he was not ip a smoking c?r
;*isgs, but Ire paid no heed to them !
and went oil smoking. It bo hap
pened that one of the travelers was
a jufltioe of the peace, who there
upon got up, took his chain of of
fice out 6i his'bag and declared the
carriage a court of 3aw. The-Black
er was found guilty v and fined 00
rubles, and, as he would not givo his
name and declared that he had no
money, hi was imprisoned in the
guard's van until he paid the fine.
-; i
How Stories Grow.
Mrs: A. (to Mra. B.)?That Mrs.
Newcomer is bo fond of her chil
dren! The other day when I called
she was blowing soap bubbles with
them through a common clay pipe*
. Mrs. B. (to Mrs. C.)?That Mra.
Newcomer is so funny. Mrs. A. saw
her amusing the children with a
common clay pipe. $
Mrs. C (to Mrs. D.)?-That jpM.
Newcomer smokes a common clay
Pl?r8. P. (to Mrs. K)?-That Mra.
Newcomer Bmokes a horrid pipe. I
don't see how any woman in .her .bo-.
. ber senses could do that.
Mrs: E, (to Mrs. F.^That Mrs,
Newcomer smokos a pipe and drinks
awfully.
An Old (taljan Custom.
In the Val di :3bse in Italy a pop
ular custom which ia knoWn as "the
. offering? has been repeated for cen
turies on Christmas day. Crowds
el ^h^^^iaitd csravey a shrine,
gifts of oranges and pomegranates,
gathered from, each worshiper's own
farm; and place them at the foot of
the altar of the ^Redeemer, who is
represented by a ,^oy holdmg a globe
and surrounded on all sides by olive
branches, wax candles and votive
lamps. Every officer wears the t\
ical ccstarae of the valley, and tfie
men assumethe traditional head*
: 'dr?w^ \: -This '.jite is said to be con
ii?cted w?th the visit of th? magi to
Bethlehem.
The m*o who doeim't wo- ry is
entitled to> lot os credit he never
g?ts.
laoy : a man who is too honest
sp? borrows and forgets t9 pLy
r.t^eo..er*'ak|pe|^.; renders a man
,}ry heVa^:. i^i'f who caUs hM^t;
>m respect for
I
Was Kot Bigoted.
The lato Bishop Elder of Cinoio- !
uati, tried vegetarianism for some
months during his residence in Nat
chez, but soon abandoned the praotioe,
finding that it did not agree with him,
says tho New York Tribune.
Bishop Eider dined with one of his
parishioners one night in Netobez at
about this time. Vegetables in pro
fusion were on the menus bul the
bishop disdained them all. He had had
about enough of vetetablea for a long
time. Ho found tho meat muoh more
to his taste.
His hoat, who did not know that he
had abandoned vegetarianism, said in
surprise:'
"Why, Bishop, I thought you wore
a vegetarian, and here I sec you eat
ing mutton. "
lib-hop Elder laughed.
"I am not a bigoted vegetarian," he
eaid. "I allow myself to oat the
meat of such animals as livo on vegeta
ble food only."
Cams to Lifo.
Union, Feb. 19 ?A remarkable case
of coming to life after his body had
been partiall} prepared for burial oc
curred in West End late Friday after
noon, when an old voteran named
Hobt. Butts, apparently died, hia body
seeming to beoome rigid.
The neighbors and his obildren, who
work in the Union eotton mills, were
immediately summoned, and eo sure
were they that he was really dead that
his body was taken oharge of, dressed
and carried into another room. A few
momenta afterward, as they eat by
the fire, they heard a sudden move
ment, and looking, the supposed corpse
was sitting upright, and sharply
ordered: "Take me back to my own
bed."
Ho bad been partially paralyzed be
fore sod it is thought that ho had an
other stroke which might have proved
fatal but for the reviving effects of tho
water and tho manipulation of the
body incidental to dressing it. Mr.
Butts is over TO voara old, and had
been sick recently, but is now better
than before his seeming demiee.
Child Burned to Death.
While Mrs. William B. Johnson
was drawing a booket of water near
her home at Norm' sidetrack on the
Southern Railway in Piokens county,
yesterday morning, her little daughter,
Laura, scarcely three years of age, was
burned to death.
The child, in moving about the
m, came too near the fire. Her
.hing burst into flames, and in a
wioment she was ia the agonies of
death. The mother heard the cries
and rushed to her baby's rescue, but
it waa too late to save the little one
! from a horrible death. Her delicate
body was oharred, ?ud though she
I lived an hour after the terrible acol
dent, she neyer spoke. . The child had
inhaled the flames, and medioat aid
ccsid do ??iuing to prolong her life.
a 'm? ' <
8ha Wished to Make Sura. ,
"Why, Maria," exclaimed Mr. Cal
kins, irait and indignant as he saw
tho fish wagon turning, at the lane,
"whatever have you gone and order
ed fish for today, andyou putting up
my lunch for a day's fishing?"
"I know, Bias," returned his wife
cheerfully, "and that's just' why.
When I get my mind set on fish, it
just breaks me all up to have to un
set it. Now, if you nadn't mention
ed anything about it and had just
come home to supper, as if you'd,
been digging potatoes all day, why,
I never should have missed 'em, but
as 'tis, it didn't seem as if I could
let the fish man pass." ? London
^it-Bits. , ' .
It Was the Privilege of a Friend. .
An eminent army officer bas n
manservant who has been with him j
a number of years and who occasion
ally speaks his mind with a candor
that, as he imagines, is Warranted
by his.long service. A friend of the
officer who overheard the servitor's
frankness asked why such familiari
ty was permitted.
"Well/* said the officer, "I hard
ly look upon James as a valet, but
rather as a friend, and, as you know,
it is a friend's privilege to tell you
things about yourself that you hard
ly like to think I about yourself."-?
Success magazine. . . '
Durability of Wood.
Some interesting experiments have
been made to ascertain which wood
lasts the longest. It was found that
birch and aspen decayed in three
years, willow and chestnut in four
years, maple and red beech in fivo
years arid elm and ash in seven
years. . Oak, Scottish fir .and Wey
mouth pine decayed to the depth of
half an inch in seven years. Larch
and'juniper were uninjured at the
end of B?ven years'. In situations so
' tr?o xroin moisture that they may
.be practioally called dry the dura
' hafti^ of timber is tmlimited.
?- Politeness is ibo; freezing poj?i
in the atmosphere of love.
. ~^Men make themselves ridiculous
by claiming to be what they are not.!
? Nothing worries a proud woman
]ike tho pride of some Other women.
;:->;^Illusions.^pf' courtsbip'iaro moie
^pleasing than 4elus*ons.of matrtmonv..
? A busy;'miller's life is' one- eo A
tinnous grind.
AMUSING BLUNDERS.
Somo Queer Slips That Havo Been ' '
Made by Famous Writers.
The writer of an article in the
Yorkshire Post recalls some aruusiug ]
literary blunders. Translators con- '
tribute largely to the list of mis- ]
takes, and the inspired lack of ac- 1
curacy of our Gallic neighbors whea
dealing with things English is pro
verbial. Victor Hugo in "Lea Tra
vailleura do la Mer" translates "tho
Firth of Forth" by the words "Pre
mier des quatre." Then there is thtt
priceless translation that geve (Jib
ber's play, "Love's Last Shift," the
title "La Demiero Chemiso do
l'Amour."
Chaucer in his tale of Troylus
makeb Pandurus refer to ltobin
Hood. One writer records tho fact
that Virgil placed ./Eneas in a har
bor which had no existence at that
time, "the blunder being uboui tho
same us if a modern poet wero to
make Columbus puss through tho
Suez canal."
Mediaeval romance teems with
anachronisms, "Orlando Furioso," '
Ariosto's grent poem, taking the
prize for reckless disregard of chro
nology. In this work Charlemagne
and Edward, king of England; Hen
ry, duke of Clarence, and other mis
mated celebrities enjoy each other's
company. The Moors are settled in
Spam at least 300 years before the
Saracens invited them, while Pres
ter John, who dif>d in* 1202, and
Constantino the Great, dead in 337,
figure gayly in these daring pages.
Schiller in his "Piccolomini" re
fers to lightning conductors 150
years before they were invented, and
Shakespeare, whose genius included
a happy gift of inaccuracy, is gener
ous in blunder. In "Juliu3 .Caesar"
tho clock, a luxury unknown to the
Kornaus, is the subject of conversa
tion between Brutus and Cassius.
"Peace," says Brutus, "count tho
clock." Cassius: "The clock has
stricken 3." It must have ken
several hundred years ?fter the
death of Caesar that striking clocks
were invented. Cervantes is respon
sible for making the company at the
Crescent tavern sit down twice to
supper on the same evening, a jovial
mistake that savors of hospitality
and good cheer.
To Charles Dickens we owe grati
tude for many a delicious blunder?
to Mr. Squeers for setting his boys
to work to hoe turnips in midwinter
and to the girl, Tattycoram, in "Lit
tle Dorrit," wh?? enters "with an
iron box two feet square under her
arm."
It was a Glasgow paper that de
scribed this unique shipping disas
ter: "The captain swam ashore, as
did also the stewardess. She was
insured for ?3,000 and carried 200
tons of pig iron." !
The English Servant.
The English servant requires to
be studied. The world's other serv
ants are taepri amateurs ; the English
servant ha$ a trade. As an Ameri
can I proceeded 'to treat mine a
l'Am?ricaine, and I made by first
blunder. A sensible American is,
if not friends with her servants, at
least friendly. The English woman,
if she is sensible, presents to tier
servants a surface of perfect indif
ference, and then she nas peace, for
the English servant despises a con
siderate and kindly mistress as not
knowing her place. The most diffi
cult thing for a stranger to learn is
that impalpable line between the dif
ferent servants' duties. If one doea
not enumerate what one expects of
them when they are hired, afterward
it is too late. They have, however, a
rough sense of honor, and they gen
erally do what they"agree to.?Sirs.
John Lane in Harper's Bazar.
Past Failures Redeemable.
There is no failure' for a man
whose spirit is unconquered. .No
matter how late the hour or how
many and repeated his failures, suc
cess is still possible. The evolution
of Scrooge, the miser, in the closing
years of his life, from a hard, nar
row, heartless money grubber, whose
soul was imprisoned in his shining
heap of hoarded gold, to a generous,
genial lover of lus kind is no mere
myth of Dickens' brain. Time and
again in tho history of our daily
recorded in biographies or exhibited
before bur eyes, we see men and wo
men redeeming past failures, rising
up out of the stupor of discourage
ment and boldly turning face for
ward once more.?O. S. Mar den in
Success.
lives, chronicled i
DOGS' VOICES.
-ersona Familiar With Them Notice
Peculiar-itics In Tones.
"It may sound curious to persons |
aot familiar with the pleasures of
hunting and who know little or
nothing of what I may call the lan
guage of dogs?the language they
use not among themselves, but when
they want to address their masters
in the woods?I say it may sound
curious to state that the experienced
hunter can tell the kind of game
traced by the way the dog barks,
but ho can do precisely this very
thing," ou old hunter said as he gos
siped with a crowd of friends in one
or the hotels. "Of course I have
reference to the all round dog and
not the dog that may be trained for
a particular kind of sport. There
are deer dogs, bear dogs, fox dogs,
coon dogs, squirrel dogs and other
dogs that havO what, we could call
among human beings specialties,
and, no matter how tempting the
game, they will not depart from
their training to chase only a cer
tain kind of animal. But I was just
thinking of the all round dog?the
dog that will chase any old kind of
game. I recall a dog of this sort
owned by n friend of mine in Ar
kansas, and he was about the most
useful member I ever saw. lie was
good at any old kind of game in
the woods and was intelligent enough
always to know just what his mas
ter wanted him to hunt. He would
tackle anything, from a rabbit to a
bear, and hod enough hound in him
to always bark when ho struck a
trail. This burking constituted the
language he used when he wanted to
notify his master what kind of trail
he had struck, and his master would
know quite as well as if he had call
ed out the name of the thing. Ho
knew by the way the dog burked. If
he merely struck a rabbit track ho
made but little noise, and ho was
not very noisy on a squirrel's trail,
though the bark was somewhat dif
ferent from that used when he trail
ed a rabbit.
"So the coon yelp and the possum
yelp were different as to each other
and different as to other yelps aud a
trifle louder than tho barking on a
rabbit or a squirrel trail. But let
him strike a deer trail or a bear
trail?well, you would think the
world was coming to an end. He
would make mote noise than a whole
pack would make. The bigger the
game, it seems, the louder he would
bark. And yet his master could tell
from the way the dog intoned his
yelp whether he was chasing a bear
or a deer, and he wouldn't have to
wait either to learn the character
end direction of the dog's move
ments in order to determine what
kind of trail he had struck."?Pitts
burg Press.
Sin Eating.
The curious and repulsive prac
tice of sin eating is now obsolete.
Aubrey in "Remain8 of Gentiiisme
and Judaisrne" thus refers to it:
"In the county ot Hereford was
an old custome at f?neralls to have
poov . copie who were to take upon
them/the einncs of the party de
ceased. The manner'was that when
the corps was brought out of the
house and lnyd on the biere a loafe
ox bread was brought out and deliv
ered to the sinne eater over the
corps, so also a mazer bouie of ma
Sle full of beer, wch he was to
rinko up and sixpense in money, in
consideration w lie re of he took upon
him all the sinnes of the defunct
and freed him or her from walking
after they were dead."
The origin of this strance cus
tom was most likely connected in
oome way with the ceremony of tho
scapegoat under the old law (Leviti
cus xvi, 21).?Westminster Gazette.
A Ciovcr 8paniel.
Spaniels are full of resource, and
their exploits in retrieving wounded
birds are wonderful. A Bmall brown
and white spaniel broke its fore leg,
which was set in stiff bandages hard
ened with some preparation. It
could only go on three legs, but hop
ped out after its master with tha
other dogs when these were taker,
for a walk. There had been a pheas
ant shoot; and tho little spaniel
could not resist slipping off to smell
down the side of a small belt. It
discovered a winged cock pheasant,
dashed after it on three legs and
caught and retrieved it, hopping
into the road with the big bird in
its mouth.?Country Gentleman.
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Schedule in effect Sept. 5, 1904,
Lv Anderson .
Calhoun Fa Un...
Ar McCormlok.
Ar Augusta.
Lv Augusta.
" Allondale.
' Yemassee.
" Charleston.,.,
" Havr.ilnah b (oen t)
" Basufort b.
** Port Royal.
7.00 a no
8.21 a in
0.10 a m
11.00 a m
2 35 p na
4.30 p m
5 40 p no
7.40 p na
0.30 p m
0.30 p m
0.40 p no
2.1G w ja
4.10 p m
0.05 p na
o 7.00 am
8.55 a m
10.05 a na
11.55 p m
oll.15 am
011.05 am
(U.lOa m
Lv Port Royal b.
" Beaufort.
11 Savannah b (eon t)
" Charleston b.
" Yemassee.
" AUondole.
Ar Augusta.
Lv Augusta.
Lv MoCormtck .........
Ar Gal non n Falls.
" Anderson....
7.25 a m
7.40 a m
5.40 a m
7.10 a m
0.15 a m
10.25 a m
12.20 p m
2.55 p m
4.40 p m
5.45 p m
7.10 n m
co.00 p m
o.io p m
c7.15 p m
o8.20.p m
10 20 p m
11.31 p m
1.30 a m
6.00 a m
7.87 a m
10.00 a m
Lv Anderson.>
Ar Greenwood.
" Waterloo (Harris Springs)
" Laurena .
" Greenville.
M3partanburg.
,* ' Glenn 8prlnse S.
7.00 a m
12.39 p m
1.17 p m
1.45 p m
8.25 p rat
3.30 p m
i 5725 pm
Lv Glonn Springt* <?. tt. U.K.).
Lv Spartan burg (U. & W. U.
Lv Greenville.
Lv Laurena.
Lv Waterloo..,.
Lv Greenwood.
Ar Anderson.
9.00 am
12.01 p m
12.15 p m
150 p m
2.20 p m
2.40 p m
7.10 p m
Au
Ui -ally except Sunday ; e, Sunday
only;.
Through train service between
gusta and Charleston.
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Effect Ivo Not. 3D, 1908.
^WESTBOUND.
No. 11 (dally)?Leave Br/.ton 3.50 ipv
m. ; Anderson 415 p. w. ; Pendleton 4.47
p. m. ; Oberrv 4 51 p. m. ; Seneca 5.31 p.
m ; arrive Walhalla 5.55 p. m.
No, 9 (dally except Sunday)?Leave
Beiton 10.4S a. m.; Anderson 11.07 o. ca.;
Pendleton 11.82 a m.; Cherry 11.39 a. na.;
arrive at Seneoa 11.57 a m.
No. 5 (Sunday only)?Leave Belton
11.45 a. m.; Anderson 11.07 a. m.; Pen
dleton 11.32 a. tn.; Cherry 11.39 a. ra.:
Seneca 1.05 p. m.; arrive Walhalla 1.2,
p. ni.
No. 7 (dallv except Sanday)?Leave
Anderson 10.30a, m.; Pendleton 10.59?.
m ; Ohorry 11.09 a. m.; Seneoa 1.05 p. m.;
arrive Walhalla 1.40 p m.
No. 3 (dally)?Laave Briton 9.15 p. m.;
arrive Anderson 9.42 p. m.
No. 23 (daily except Sunday)?Leave
Helton 0.00 a. m.; arrive Anderson 9.30)
a. m.
BASBOUND.
No. 12 (dally)?Leave Walhalla 8 35?.
m.; Seneca 8.58 a. m ; Cberiy 9.17 a. m.;
Pendleton 9.25 a. m?) Anderson 10.00 a.
I m.; arrive Belton 10.25 a. m.
No. lfi (deily except Sunday)?jueavo
I Seneoa 2 00 p. m ; Cherry 2.19 p. m.; Pen
1 dleton 2 26 p. m.; Anderson 3 10 p. ?...?
> arrive Belton 3.35 p. rh.
i No. ? (Sanday only)?J>ave Anderten
3.10 p. m.; arrive Belton 3 35 p. La.
No 8 (dally)?Leave Walbai!??. ' ?.j p.
in.; Seneca 5.31 -p. m.; Cherry &.?i>p. ai.;
Fendleton 6.12 p m.; Anderson 7.30 p.
m.; arrive Belton 7 58 p. m. .
No. 24 (dally except Sunday}?Leav^
Anderson. 7.50 a. m.: arrive Belton 8.20
a.m. H. C. BEACTIE, Pres.,
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